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Re: Release 2.21 - Soon...
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Steve Ellcey <sje at cup dot hp dot com>
- Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Richard Sandiford <richard dot sandiford at linaro dot org>
- Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:08:29 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: Release 2.21 - Soon...
- References: <201012031743.oB3HhE615203@lucas.cup.hp.com>
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> FYI: I am currently looking at a gas problem on IA64 HP-UX. I noticed
> that I am getting C++ failures in my GCC build/test runs and it looks
> like it is due to one of the changes made to the gnu assembler by
> Richard Sandiford or Maciej W. Rozycki on December 1 or 2. I haven't
> really got a good handle on the problem yet, but when running the C++
> tests using the latest assembler I get a lot of messages like:
>
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
> what(): std::bad_alloc
> FAIL: 20_util/allocator/8230.cc execution test
>
> The failures always involve 'terminate called after throwing....' and
> go away if I use an older assembler.
>
> I would like to understand what is happening and fix it before 2.21
> is released.
My December changes are not intended to go into 2.21 and are not on the
2.21 branch -- are you seeing the problem with the release branch too?
Maciej